Genuine Historical Calvinism (1)

[The following brief discussion took place on a Calvinist internet forum in December of 2006. It will be slightly edited for the purpose of readability.] Chris, You make some interesting points on your new web sight (http://www.calvinism.us/intro.htm), but it also raises a few questions. You wrote: Different Calvinists believed different things down through history. They [...]

The Potter counted as the clay?

The following is an edited correspondence between myself, and I think, a member of the Greek Orthodox Church. mertdawg wrote: Now when you talk about predestination or determinism, what exactly do you mean? Do you believe that 1) every movement of every atom in the universe is predetermined from the dawn of time to the [...]

A god who cannot save

Whoever believes in a god who wishes things would happen (like wishing that everyone without exception would be saved) but who does not and/or cannot do whatever he wishes, does not believe in the God of the Bible. mertdawg wrote: You’ve got it backwards. God came first-then the bible. You apparently believe in some kind [...]

Limiting God’s power?

Here’s another edited exchange between myself and an opponent from the distant past. My opponent had written: I think you are limiting God’s power more than one who says he could save all of us. I am not limiting God’s power. I am proclaiming it by saying that God shows His power in showing mercy [...]

The height of egotism?

The following is a slightly edited exchange from an internet forum that took place several years ago. My opponent had written to me the following: It is the height of egotism to assume that only your religion can reach the Absolute Truth. Fundamentalism, whether Christian or Muslim, is inherently exclusionary. It is the height of [...]

WCF full-subscriptionist position

Pietros wrote: I looked at the title of this thread and saw “Wicked Westminster Confession” and thought maybe this Forum allowed Atheists on it. Anyone who calls the WCF evil is either not a believer, or is so brainwashed by their IFBx preecher [sic] that they are afraid to read it foir [sic] fear of [...]

Full assurance

grace987 wrote: Another gospel INCLUDES WORKS (like Nahum’s) with his FULL ASSURANCE=FAITH position. That is definitely WORKS>>>>!!!! You have to DO SOMETHING to keep your salvation so that is works…no matter how much talking he does. Isaiah 50:10 REFUTES HIM. To paraphrase a prophet of your own: It is a very common phenomenon in the [...]

Of navel-gazers and straw-men

grace987 wrote: Yes, I am judging you and all like you as unregenerate who insist on that position you and your brother in Satan hold on “Marriage and Divorce” and “Full Assurance = Faith” Yes, I can produce Scripture to refute BOTH. I am aquainted with your position so it is not necessarry to repeat [...]

Perniciously peculiar

Wilderness Voice wrote: Be nice to those who authored the WCF, after all they did include the following clause in the WCF: “All synods or councils since the apostles’ times, whether general or particular, may err, and many have erred; therefore they are not to be made the rule of faith or practice,” The rest [...]

Roger Nicole a hyper-calvinist?

Book Man responding to my “Wicked Westminster Confession” article: Dude, You and your little cadre of writers are so far off the mark it makes me laugh. And I thought Roger Nicole was a hyper Calvinist. You people make him look like a Pelagian. Nobody is citing Scripture. Nobody is giving a substantial response. Just [...]